Anisynta tillyardi, the chequered grass-skipper or Tillyard's skipper, is a species of butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Australia in the Dividing Range, at heights of over 1,000 metres in southern Queensland and northern New South Wales.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Genus: | Anisynta |
| Species: | A. tillyardi
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| Binomial name | |
| Anisynta tillyardi Waterhouse & Lyell, 1912
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The wingspan is about 30 mm.
The larvae feed on Poa labillardieri.
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